A search is underway for a suspect in connection with two deaths Friday morning.

Police apprehended a suspect in the Central Michigan University shooting just after midnight on Friday, March 2, the Associated Press reports, adding that the arrest came "without incident."

The AP also included confirmation from Central Michigan University police Chief Bill Yeagley that the two killed in the shooting were the parents of the suspected shooter. Yeagley told reporters the parents had arrived on campus after the suspect was hospitalized for suspected drug abuse on Thursday, March 1. The parents had reportedly returned to the suspect's dorm room to help him pack for spring break when they were killed.

Yeagley told reporters that the suspect made contact with officials earlier Thursday morning when he ran into a community police officer's office in a dormitory. Yeagley said that officer reported the suspected shooter being "very frightened" and "not making a lot of sense."

"He said someone was out to hurt him, someone was going to harm him, and the officer calmed him down and tried to gain more information about what was going on," Yeagley said. He said the alleged shooter's Thursday morning comments were "very vague and he kept talking about someone having a gun." Yeagley added: "We said, 'How do you know he was going to hurt you if you didn't see a gun?' He was saying things like, 'It's just a feeling. I know it.'"

Yeagley said that, after another unusual interaction with the suspect, police made contact with the student's mother. Yeagley said that officers spoke with the mother, raising concerns about drug use. "The mother said she too was concerned this could be drugs," he told reporters. But he declined to confirm that any illicit substances had been found in the suspect's system.

The AP also reports that the gun used in the shooting belonged to the suspect's father, a part-time police officer who worked in Bellwood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. But police declined to reveal details of how the suspected shooter obtained the weapon that belonged to the father. Yeagley said the suspect was being held under guard at a hospital on Saturday, but would be transported to Isabella County jail upon discharge.

A university spokeswoman told the AP that the suspect is charged with two counts of murder and a weapons charge in relation to the shootings.

In a press conference held Friday afternoon, a police spokesperson called the event "a family-type domestic issue" and said that the CMU police had transported the suspect to a hospital Thursday night for what officers believed might have been a "drug-related type incident — an overdose or a bad reaction to drugs."

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was among those who made their way to campus as a search for the suspect continued throughout the day. In a second press conference later in the afternoon, he and CMU President George E. Ross emphasized student safety as a primary concern and commended the collaboration between different law enforcement agencies searching for the suspect.

"It was an isolated incident, but we had two people that were killed in a residence facility," Snyder said at that press conference. "That's traumatic to the students, to the parents, to the staff, to the faculty, and in this case, to the community because this individual is still at large." The governor used Twitter to share updates on the shelter-in-place lockdown and the investigation.

Meanwhile, NPR reported that a tactical team and a police helicopter had been deployed in the search. Per a Reuters report, police were advising that the suspect should be considered "armed and dangerous."